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Rochester, Minnesota

Historic Southwest, April 2026

A neighborhood page. 31 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

31

drone flights crossed Historic Southwest.

31

of them in April 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Historic Southwest 31 times between 1 April 2026 and 30 April 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 April 2026.

31 of the 31 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
Historic SouthwestOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

6 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

6% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 31 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service48%
  2. Training and testing26%
  3. Events23%
  4. Other3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Apr 202610:33 amCall for service12 min0b0eec4b
Sat 4 Apr 202612:36 pmCall for service14 min0fc1fa6f
Thu 9 Apr 20266:08 amEvents12 min724593d3
Thu 9 Apr 20264:56 pmCall for service21 minb0376cb4
Wed 15 Apr 20268:51 amEvents17 min88fdeab9
Wed 15 Apr 202611:41 amOther4 mine43bd68a
Wed 15 Apr 20262:53 pmCall for service22 minc20faa35
Wed 15 Apr 20265:27 pmEvents10 min64dd00fb
Thu 16 Apr 202610:00 amCall for service12 min7bf874ef
Sat 18 Apr 20261:53 pmCall for service3 min1a4f7516
Sat 18 Apr 20262:28 pmCall for service10 minc3d9ce32
Sat 18 Apr 20268:25 pmEvents13 minc322ea1d
Tue 21 Apr 20265:58 pmCall for service18 min3fad701c
Tue 21 Apr 20266:47 pmCall for service17 min3abcec6e
Tue 21 Apr 20267:42 pmCall for service16 min805bc0c5
Fri 24 Apr 202611:00 amTraining and testing9 mine1d4d5ac
Fri 24 Apr 202611:49 amTraining and testing7 min5593b850
Fri 24 Apr 202611:58 amTraining and testing5 min96b1879f
Fri 24 Apr 20267:56 pmCall for service13 min02e2377c
Sat 25 Apr 20262:16 pmEvents9 minfac97028
Sun 26 Apr 202610:37 pmCall for service16 min342a9342
Mon 27 Apr 20267:03 pmCall for service19 minacea3d8b
Tue 28 Apr 20266:30 pmTraining and testing8 min06bbd1d1
Wed 29 Apr 20264:22 amEvents15 min5ddf3d95
Wed 29 Apr 202611:33 amTraining and testing5 mind4b1c65d
Wed 29 Apr 20265:44 pmCall for service14 minf3ec254f
Wed 29 Apr 20268:02 pmEvents15 mindcc43f91
Wed 29 Apr 20268:43 pmTraining and testing6 min8d1796c2
Wed 29 Apr 20268:55 pmTraining and testing8 minf93343ae
Thu 30 Apr 20267:45 amTraining and testing7 minf1471b93
Thu 30 Apr 20266:26 pmCall for service14 minbb56ce8f

All 31 flights in April 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • Boundary. "Historic Southwest" is a neighborhood polygon from Olmsted County GIS (Neighborhood Associations), licence "NOASSERTION". Boundary licence unconfirmed: the boundary is shown for orientation only.
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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